After checking the achievement notification, I was presented with this:
Context: I still have an account after using PDS to alter/remove all my posts and wiping my profile, but I still get messages from redditors seeking help so I check in from time to time.
Are you guys still using Reddit?
Reddit sucks yes but lemmy it’s hard to find tech support.
Yes, m*stly through Apollo which has a tweak so it still works (that’s right, I jailbreak in 2024)
yes because LEMMY STILL SUUUUUCKS
Wow, looks like the facebook tactics are creeping in. Fb started notifying users to pull them back on the platform with “x person commented on y person’s post (that you’ve never interacted with)”, and half the time those notifications didn’t link to the post, and you couldn’t turn them off. I’m not sure how that brings people back at all.
Before I was randomly permabanned from Reddit, I got to enjoy Reddit’s dogshit post notifications, where it just recommends me a random post from a community that I’ve never interacted with or will ever, then come to realise it just brings me to the community, not the post.
Honestly I’m so glad I got banned from that shithole, from the pedo dms to the always pissed off Redditors replying to my comments, to the absolute neckbeard degenerates in the comment sections, it’s so freeing not experiencing that anymore.
Dark patterns will eventually force advertisements into anything that reliably catches your attention.
I stopped paying attention to notification icons ages ago, and I haven’t missed any important notifications.
